Priced out?

[BungleBear]

I've seen a couple of videos where kids get tickets to a match for Christmas. So sad that we have come so far from the time where a parent could just decide to go on a Saturday morning and rock up at the turnstile.

Boxing Day 1987 you needed tickets at MR

 

[blue for life]

I was priced out years ago. The PL clubs take the piss.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Boxing Day 1987 you needed tickets at MR

I (vaguely) remember literally waking up on the Kippax one day around Christmas/New Year in the late 70s. Suddenly realised that I was at a match, standing with a few mates in our usual apot.

Not a clue how I got there, and no memory of paying to get in. I didn't have any money in my pockets at all. The last I remembered was being in town the previous night. I probably jibbed in with someone at the turnstiles.

My brother turned up (as usual, just after kick off), and asked me why I didn't meet him in the Fallowfield before the game.

Those were the days.

Tickets? We didn't need tickets!

 

[LEXSTARproject]

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

I’m in the fortunate position that I can comfortably afford my season ticket so it’s unlikely I will be priced out any time soon.

That being said I am on the verge of binning it off for other reasons. After the pandemic my passion for City isn’t as strong and I go to less games than I did (I used to be on all the cup schemes), and I have other interests that increasingly take up my weekends. Often going to the match feels like an obligation rather than something I do for fun.

That combined with the rip off prices, awful public transport and general poor treatment of fans makes me enjoy it less and less.

Moving seat helped, I found the south stand increasingly feral, I’ll keep my season ticket next year and then see what happens the year after.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

This thread and the atmosphere thread conspire together

 

[cyberblue]

Lots of people posting that they’ve lost interest but not many saying they’ve been priced out?? I’m For cheaper tickets btw.

Maybe we need a lost interest thread?

I think the ones with season tickets aren't being priced out .It's the ones buying tickets on a match by match basis that definitely are.
Waiting to see what brainwave the powers to be come up with for selling new seats in the North Stand .Couldn't fill the ground for Feyenoord,Forrest,Everton.for whatever reason.It will be interesting to see what the bright sparks come up with

 

[Worsleyweb]

I’m in the fortunate position that I can comfortably afford my season ticket so it’s unlikely I will be priced out any time soon.

That being said I am on the verge of binning it off for other reasons. After the pandemic my passion for City isn’t as strong and I go to less games than I did (I used to be on all the cup schemes), and I have other interests that increasingly take up my weekends. Often going to the match feels like an obligation rather than something I do for fun.

That combined with the rip off prices, awful public transport and general poor treatment of fans makes me enjoy it less and less.

Moving seat helped, I found the south stand increasingly feral, I’ll keep my season ticket next year and then see what happens the year after.

I am similar - been match going for 40 years but genuinely have better things to do these days. Think my last year of season ticket. Midweeks and getting home at 11 are a thing of the past.

 

[mayo31]

I am similar - been match going for 40 years but genuinely have better things to do these days. Think my last year of season ticket. Midweeks and getting home at 11 are a thing of the past.

Before you bin your ticket off let me know as i would be interested in buying it. Simple enough to transfer over. Seeing as the club not offering anymore

 

[Gone for a Burton]

I am similar - been match going for 40 years but genuinely have better things to do these days. Think my last year of season ticket. Midweeks and getting home at 11 are a thing of the past.

I looked around me in CBL3 on Thursday and was struck by the age of so many fans.

We all probably started watching City in the late 50s,early 60s putting us now in our late 60s,mid 70s & above.

Many hundreds,possibly thousands of us, will stop attending games for a variety of reasons in the next few years.

I really wonder how the club will attract and keep the replacement generation with the ticketing /pricing/ conditions in place currently, because they are steadily ailienating many,many hitherto loyal fans.

Wake up City,you're at at a dangerous tipping point !!